For those of you waiting for the miracle to come, I am here to tell you that it is here. The events of the last week were stunning. This week, the home team scored big in the face of overwhelming odds.

The week started out looking bleak. In general, the world is marching to war against “the little Jew who wrote the Bible,” as the poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen wryly put it in his song “The Future.” “Waiting for the Miracle” is another one of his songs, and a miracle might be what has to save the free world at this point. The world is marching against freedom, against the West. Those of us who are married to this work, to the fight, have chronicled the play-by-play on the road to Armageddon. We have been confounded by the apathy exhibited by good, decent folks in the face of this naked evil. It has been one blow after another here in America and across the world.

Many believe that it will take mass death to rouse the good people in the world to action. Many think that this is simply the human condition. It was this way with Hitler. Everyone knew what he was and what he was saying. Just as today, they know what Ahmadinejad is saying, and what Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi is saying, and Anwar al-Awlaki, and Ibrahim Hooper, and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf...

Everyone knew what Hitler was, and still many people loved him until he stopped winning. What did it take to wake up the good folk? Mass death. By the millions.

And that is coming.

But not this week, although it looked for awhile as if this would not be a good moment for freedom fighters. In an act of diabolical calculation, Barack Hussein Obama dropped a bomb on Benjamin Netanyahu right before the Prime Minister of Israel was scheduled to speak before the joint session of Congress at the invitation of the Speaker of the House, John Boehner.

Obama announced a proposed return to the “Auschwitz borders,” Israel’s 1967 borders that were at one point only nine miles wide. Wipe out. And so the real story of the week, the unity government that Hamas and Fatah began forming, was obliterated and disappeared from the national dialogue. Instead, the Prime Minister of our strongest, most unflappable ally in the Middle East was boxed in. He had to defend his tiny nation; he had to rebuke the nazi-like comments of President.

And so he did, brilliantly. And in doing so, he was the object of scorn and derision from the leftwing media here and abroad -- not to mention the flapping tongues of the chattering class. They thought that Obama had masterfully outfoxed our friend. But not so fast. The expectation of the media elite and those who think they know better was that Binyamin Netanyahu would praise Obama to the skies when he spoke Monday at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Obama had opened the door to this in his remarks the day before at AIPAC. He doubled down, but spouted just enough rhetoric about “ironclad” relationships and so forth that it would have been bad form for Netanyahu not to pay tribute.

But he didn’t. Instead, he made a damn fine speech and retained his dignity, his principles and his moral edge. And that was just the opening act. On Tuesday, he spoke to the joint session in Congress, and his speech was a triumph. 56 times. That’s how many times the Congress cheered, applauded and/or stood up for Benjamin Netanyahu. This kind of reception is reserved for a much-loved president of…the United States. He was welcomed with a standing ovation and over three minutes of thunderous applause.

And he did not disappoint. Netanyahu was brilliant.

This was history. Unforgettable.

“Israel has no better friend than America and America has no better friend than Israel,” Netanyahu said. The two countries “stand together, to defend democracy, to advance peace and to fight terrorism.”

His speech was very strong. He did not downplay the disagreements, but discussed them forthrightly and was met with thunderous applause.

“Israel,” he said, “is the only country that has guaranteed freedom of all faiths in Jerusalem, which must remain undivided.” He went to say that Hamas not a partner for peace. Israel will not, he said, “negotiate with a Palestinian government, which is backed by a Palestinian version of al-Qaida.” Its charter calls for killing of Jews; he said he was “willing to make far-reaching compromises,” but under any pragmatic deal, strategic sites must be incorporated into final borders.

There is no need for the United States to send troops to Israel because “we defend ourselves,” Netanyahu said. He spoke ‘‘about the great convulsion taking place in the Middle East” in his opening remarks and said that the “ground is still shifting” and that the uprisings in the Muslim countries represent people’s demands for liberty -- but like 1979 Iran, the outcomes were in question.

He said that of 300 million Arabs, the only ones who are “truly free” are citizens of Israel. “Israel gives equal rights to all her citizens, even those who once fought against her, and even to those who work against her even at present – and announce publicly that they do so. There is no Arab or Muslim country in the world whose citizens have the freedom that Israel’s Arabs have. There is one country in the Middle East where they enjoy freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of the press - Israel."

After one person got through the layers of security and tried to heckle the Prime Minsiter, Netanyahu said that the United States is a “real democracy,” unlike the “farcical” regimes of Tehran and Tripoli (it was delicious).

Much is being made of the applause that Obama received at AIPAC. I think this needs to be explained, or at least put into some context.

AIPAC is generally an orgy of applause and cheering for anyone and everyone who addresses the appreciative audience. It is the one place where Jews can congregate and hear wonderful, exultant praise of Israel (outside of the constant campaign of anti-Israel propaganda). And the AIPAC rank and file love the respite from the lies and the smears. They will cheer anything. Seriously. Mention that grilled chicken will be served in the cafe downstairs and you'll get a huge round of applause. 25,000 carrots had to be brought to garnish the salads to feed 10,000 attendees. That, too, gets a hand. This is a happy group.

The response to Obama's appearance was tempered. Obama was not cheered. Yes, they applauded and they stood when he backpedaled on his Auschwitz borders comment (he said it, but "I didn't mean that"). But I will tell you that it was nothing like the response that Bush got or Bolton and Cheney received in previous years. The people never sat down during those rousing speeches. They raised the roof. Yesterday afternoon Eric Cantor spoke in the afternoon and the hall shook. Literally, the applause was thunderous, clearly reflecting what AIPAC’s members are really thinking. Here are videos of Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s incredible speech to AIPAC: Part 1 and Part 2.

The hall did not shake for Obama. There was no huge outpouring of support. When he walked back some of his scary rhetoric, they appreciated it. Look, the guy next to me shushed me when he didn't like my remarks, so I shushed him every time he applauded. It was like that. It takes some people a very long time to figure out that they have been kicked in the teeth, and that they are getting kicked in the teeth. It seems impossible, but Jews simply do not comprehend what is being done to them, and what is being done to Israel. It is as though they are liberals/socialists first, Democrats second .... and Jews dead last. German Jews thought themselves Germans before Jews .....

In a world that did not perceive Jews as Jews, first, last and always, this might not be such a major intellectual failing, but in this world, it is suicidal. They simply do not comprehend what they see, when they look down and see someone sawing off their leg with a dull saw.

UPDATE: Case in point: the functionary Howard Kohr is getting a standing ovation as we speak. Need I say more? When the janitor comes in to clear the tables, he'll get a standing ovation, too.

Barack Obama came to American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, on Sunday and declared that the U.S.-Israel relationship was ironclad. I was there and heard him say it, but it did not reassure me. I am dubious about Obama's promise. After all, he caused fright and worry amongst freedom-loving peoples when he endorsed the 1967 Auschwitz borders for Israel, and he did not dispel that concern at AIPAC.

Obama's idea of ironclad is sketchy at best. In 2008, he vowed at the AIPAC conference that Jerusalem would remain the undivided capital of the state of Israel if he was elected. He walked back on that promise the next day. In 2009 at Cairo University (with the Muslim Brotherhood in attendance at his invitation), he called on Israel to stop all the settlement activity, and created a crisis in U.S.-Israel relations when Israel approved 1,600 houses in Jerusalem.

Obama was at the 2007 AIPAC conference also. Having researched and documented his background and history of Jew-hating friends and alliances, I was embarrassed by the panting and fawning over him, particularly after he had just said, "Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people." Obama's longtime anti-Israel allegiances and radical connections were deeply disturbing and meticulously documented in my book, "The Post American Presidency.

Nonetheless, when Obama was introduced Sunday, he was given a standing ovation. One has to wonder: If Hitler came to AIPAC before the world became aware of the Holocaust, would he, too, have received a standing ovation out of respect for a head of state? No, I am not equating Obama to Hitler. What I am saying is that not every head of state is worthy of respect just because he is a head of state. And while many did not stand up, the fact is that many did because they wanted to be reassured. Could we come any cheaper?

Obama fell off the teleprompter when he was describing Iran as wanting to wipe Israel "off the face of the map." If Sarah Palin had said that they wanted to wipe Israel "off the face of the map," "face of the map" would be the new bumper sticker and the crawl at CNN all through the news cycle.

Obama on the jumbotrons: you gotta love that the camerman at AIPAC included his teleprompters. Love that.

First, allow me to thank President Obama. Who could have imagined that O would have been the one to bring me back to AIPAC? After the 2007 AIPAC, I never thought I would return. Obama was there, too. Having researched and documented Obama's background and history of Jew-hating friends and alliances, I was embarrassed by the panting and fawning over him, particularly after he had just said,"Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people."

Obama's longtime anti-Israel allegiances and radical connections were deeply disturbing and meticulously documented in my book, The Post American Presidency.

I argued with the executive director about it as well. My break with AIPAC was sealed back in May of '08, when a reader invited me to the AIPAC Wall Street dinner at Cipriani. I went up to the Executive Director, Howard Kohr, and said that I understood that AIPAC was "non-partisan, but Obama will be lethal for the Jews." Kohr scoffed. I went on to relate all that I had unearthed in my two years of relentless investigation of Obama, and I laid it out, point by point, fact by fact, with as little hyperbole as I could. Kohr shook his head. He would have none of it. We are non-partisan, he insisted. To what point are you non-partisan? If there is a candidate, a party, an official who is a Jew-hater, do you maintain neutrality, like Switzerland? He just smiled and walked away. And I walked away from AIPAC.

Until now. The destroyer took office, and so I returned to the fold, albeit for the moment. Who'd a thunk that Obama would be the catalyst to my return to the mishpacha? And not just me. This AIPAC conference is the largest-attended ever, with over ten thousand people. Over 1500 students came from across the country and around the world, and 215 student government presidents were there as well. And so I took my place in a two-and-a-half hour line, a line of polite, erudite and lovely people. It was good and nourishing to see so many concerned Jews, coming to get activated. When I remarked to the two gentlemen in front of me, who had just gotten in from California, that the schmeckle should be heckled, I was warned that anyone heckling was to be removed immediately. Everyone had been warned. And I thought, How ridiculous. I had intended to politely heckle -- to hisssssssssss -- when he spoke of the Auschwitz borders. The idea that we should go quietly when we're being loaded onto the trains is not a mistake that the Jews should make again.

A number of AIPAC notables kicked off the event. Steny Hoyer was the first politician to speak, and while strongly supportive of Israel, his idiotic insistence on a two-state solution was only met by more idiocy: a round of rousing applause. What delusional mental acrobatics must be engaged in to imagine a Philistine state living in peace and harmony. Hoyer talked out of both sides of his mouth. No support or tolerance for extremists or terrorists, but let's give the savages a state.

When BHO was introduced, he was given a standing ovation. One has to wonder: if Hitler came to AIPAC, before the world became aware of the Holocaust, would he, too, have received a standing ovation, out of respect for a head of state? No, I am not equating Obama to Hitler; what I am saying is that not every head of state is worthy of respect just because he is a head of state. And many did not stand up. Obama fell off the teleprompter when he was describing Iran as wanting to wipe Israel off the "face of the map." If Sarah Palin had said that they wanted to wipe Israel "off the face of the map," "face of the map" would be the new bumper sticker and the crawl at CNN all through the news cycle.

Once again, he cited "the new generation of Arabs changing the region." As if this new generation of goosesteppers have any other intention than to destroy the State of Israel -- which is why the peace treaty with Egypt is now in jeopardy.

Obama began to whine that his call for a return to the Auschwitz borders was not his original idea. But did anyone really think he was capable of an original idea? His copout was that these 1967 borders had been whispered about behind the scenes for years by previous administrations. But this weak excuse rings hollow. You don't publicly start negotiations with your end position. The Muslims in Gaza, and in Judea and Samaria, have given nothing, have agreed to nothing. Their only movement has been toward radicalization by aligning with Hamas.

In a rare, useless skill set mastered by our clumsy President, Obama managed to double down and backpedal at the same time. He tried to softshoe the '67 borders remark by focusing instead on the caveat of mutually agreed-upon swaps. He admonished us for taking him the wrong way. I kid you not.

I said that the United States believes that negotiations should result in two states, with permanent Palestinian borders with Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, and permanent Israeli borders with Palestine. The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states. The Palestinian people must have the right to govern themselves, and reach their potential, in a sovereign and contiguous state.

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That is what I said. Now, it was my reference to the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps that received the lion’s share of the attention. And since my position has been misrepresented several times, let me reaffirm what “1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps” means.

By definition, it means that the parties themselves – Israelis and Palestinians – will negotiate a border that is different than the one that existed on June 4, 1967. It is a well known formula to all who have worked on this issue for a generation. It allows the parties themselves to account for the changes that have taken place over the last forty-four years, including the new demographic realities on the ground and the needs of both sides. The ultimate goal is two states for two peoples. Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people, and the state of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people; each state enjoying self-determination, mutual recognition, and peace.

As if the Muslims would swap anything with the Jews and allow the Jews peace in their rightful homeland. Lunacy.

The money quote of the day was "If there's a controversy, then, it's not based in substance." Oh, really? I vill gaslight you and you vill like it.

Obama's declaration that the U.S./Israel relationship was ironclad does not reassure me. I am dubious about Obama's promise. Obama's idea of ironclad is sketchy at best. After all, in 2008 Obama vowed at the AIPAC conference that Jerusalem would remain the undivided capital of the state of Israel if he was elected. He walked back on that promise the next day. In 2009 at Cairo University (with the Muslim Brotherhood in attendance at his invitation), he called on Israel to stop all the settlement activity, and created a crisis in US/Israel relations when Israel approved 1600 houses in Jerusalem. And of course last week, Obama caused fright and worry amongst freedom-loving peoples when he endorsed the Auschwitz borders. I am glad that he said that the UN won't create "Palestine," and while this is elemental, with Obama, you gotta be happy with any crumb. When he said that Israel's isolation in the international arena won't be sanctioned or tolerated, he did not expand upon that. So while his propaganda ministers will spin this for the Jewish campaign dollar, when you really look at it, it's a lot of empty rhetoric. He used AIPAC today to reassure the Jews ....... and many bought the ruse.

There is something about the Jews that brings out the best in the best people and the worst in the worst people. As evidenced here.

Outside, these people (below) were on Obama's side. It is important to mention that in previous years the Jew-haters' protests were small, insignificant. This is the Obama effect. What these pictures fail to convey is the malevolent carnival atmosphere, the strange dirge of death music played by awful musicians and drummers. It was a surreal hell.

The dancing Nazis

Self loathing Jew Medea Benjamin (nee Susan, who changed her name to that of the monster who killed her children; I guess "Eva Braun" was taken) was dancing wildly with the hijabed one on the left. Medea is a constant vistor to the White House, acting as an emissary between Obama and Hamas.

AIPAC flotilla

The haters erected their hatred of Jews wall. One of many spectacles in the circus of genocidal aspirations.